The Everyday Millionaire Show
The Everyday Millionaire Show
Our Experience in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Fishing, Desert Dune Buggy, Food)
Picture this: battling the choppy waves of Cabo San Lucas while reeling in giant marlin, all just a stone's throw from our rented luxury beachfront home. That's only the beginning of our annual company vacation, where work meets play in the most spectacular way. Join us as we share the highlights of our adventure, from the thrill of offshore fishing to the laughter shared over seasickness tales. Our discussions around Cabo's vibrant lifestyle and the stunning transformation of a real estate gem will surely keep you hooked.
Welcome to the Everyday Millionaire Show with Ryan Greenberg and Nick Kalfas. Alright, guys, welcome back to another episode of the Everyday Millionaire Show. We are here in Cabo San Lucas, mexico, about to record an impromptu podcast. We wanted to do this because, first of all, we wanted to show you this fucking crazy view that we have and do some more lifestyle content that we've been talking about doing for the last several months. So, nick, how's it going here?
Speaker 2:good man life is beautiful. Beautiful weather here, I mean, I know back at home today, and the past couple days have been relatively warm, considering it's November now.
Speaker 1:But very nice, very nice here in Cabo the service here and just like what we have, like we rented this house. It's a crazy house on this hill, like I mean. They literally build these houses on steep ass hills and they're just like castles and you definitely work your calf muscles coming up the stairs. Yeah, you get a workout every time you come up here. But I think one of the coolest parts is just the service we got. We got a concierge this guy, Juan who just comes and takes care of everything we want. So one of the reasons for this trip I guess we could say that is that we try to do a company trip every year somewhere sick and like to show our appreciation to everybody that works for us. Nick tags along and Nick's the podcast partner, so we have to bring him too. Justin's the new sales guy. Obviously, everybody knows Chase already. He's been on the last several episodes running all the real estate sales side of things. We like to come down here and spend some money and have some fun.
Speaker 3:Dude, this weather is insane, the cell phone service insane, the people insane. Like everybody's so nice and it's safe, it feels so safe.
Speaker 2:Although when we first got here I don't know what it was and don't say it's because my Android, but I was having trouble getting service and then I was able to figure it out.
Speaker 1:Well, let's talk about that. It is definitely 100% an Android issue and if you had an iPhone you wouldn't have those issues, just like none of us have had issues here. But not only the cell phone signal is good here, but we were offshore fishing for marlin yesterday, catching giant marlin a mile off of the beach while adam was facetiming. People like we go offshore fishing at home and you are fucking deep, you're 60, 70 miles offshore, you can't talk to anybody, you got no. You got no communication with back home unless you have a satellite phone or starlink or whatever. This was just like we were looking at literally boats and girls on the beach while we were fishing a mile off the beach catching these giant beautiful marlin. I think that's. I think that's that was.
Speaker 2:that was pretty sick, and the reason for that, for those of you who don't fish, is here in cabo you can go, like ryan said, half a mile mile offshore, still see the mountains and the shorelines and the water depth is about 2,500 feet, whereas if we go back home fishing we have to go three hours offshore just to get that depth of water.
Speaker 1:We're still not even in that depth, even that far off.
Speaker 3:And it's cold. Yeah, half the time it's cold. You're in bibs and everything else like cold weather gear.
Speaker 2:It was a little rocky, though it was very choppy.
Speaker 1:I would say the wakes were probably six foot to eight feet. They were less than that, but it was. It was choppy, it was. We definitely got some. We had some sick sicklings. Chase got sick first.
Speaker 2:I had to follow him up. I got sick only time.
Speaker 1:So Chase didn't feel bad about getting sick. Not only did not only did Chase bounce back, but as soon as he bounced back, we had hooked a 170, 180-pound blue marlin and reeled it in like a champion. How was that?
Speaker 3:That was your first billfish right, that was my first billfish. That was actually the probably most intense fish encounter I've ever had. You're reeling super fast, you're fighting this fish and you get it close it's probably like 20 feet, thank you so much, thank you and you get it close and then it just rips 100 yards right out and it feels like you're holding 180 pounds just in your hands and it's the most crazy experience. And to do that in shorts and a t-shirt when at home we'd be in like all weather gear and it'd be nuts.
Speaker 1:The yeah, the. Sometimes it gets a little bit demotivating because you're working so hard and you get like a couple of cranks in and then that fish just gets mad and it fucking goes, and it's like all that work that you just did that is gone.
Speaker 3:You just reeled your forearms. I mean, my forearm had never hurt so bad.
Speaker 1:I had the longest fish. It was actually probably close to a mile because we had 400 yards of mono and then the fish came up. So if you don't know bill fishing, fishing, bill fishing they come up, they whack the bait and Then they come back to it and they swallow it. So we had a hit, the fish left and the mate dumped the reel. So he just put it in free spool and just let all this line out. I was just watching the line and line line. Then he finally hooked up and then we saw it jump and it literally looked like it was like five miles away, but it was obviously probably like seven, eight hundred yards away and it I mean it took me what? 20 minutes at least to get.
Speaker 2:Brian has been preparing for the last year for that moment, all the workout routines that he has done yeah, certainly helped him out.
Speaker 1:That is very true. I was, I was struggling, but and then somebody I think Adam was like you want somebody to help you? I was like, absolutely not, this is my, this is my fish. I'm gonna take it down. I'm gonna, because then people will be talking shit this entire trip.
Speaker 3:I was talking to the captain up top while you were reeling it in. He was like yeah, the mates. He was like they love it when the big strong men come on board and think they can just manhandle the marlin and then they get all worn out and can't get it in. But dude, you did it and it was it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Like they said, we caught four, we reeled in four marlin. We released them because we were hoping to get a mahi or another wahoo that we could bring home and that was the intention was to bring it back to have the chef cook it for dinner. And uh, we didn't end up catching a wahoo or mahi, so we came back with no fish, but that sea bass. We didn't end up catching a wahoo or a mahi, so we came back with no fish, but that's sea bass yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's the other thing too. Let's, let's talk about that real quick having a private chef, when you top, top notch.
Speaker 3:I've never had that experience, and that's just.
Speaker 2:That's a different class think about how much time it saves. I mean, they're, they're in there prepping right now, and what time is it now? It's's about nine o'clock, yeah, so they've been here for like an hour, hour and a half, prepping for breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we got back from our activities. We got back from fishing. The chefs were oh no, we got back from fishing, went to play pickleball. The chefs came in, started prepping their food for two hours. They prepped their food for two hours prepping their food for two hours. They prepped their food for two hours. They made a sashimi, all sorts of all fresh fish, everything. They're in there for two hours prepping while we're like up the hill playing pickleball, having a good time. Then you cook, they serve you just as if you're in a restaurant, and then they clean up and you just go back to doing whatever you're doing on vacation.
Speaker 2:It's like they don't want you to get up, like they're going to come to your. Come to the dining room table in the house and bring you a refill of whatever you're drinking yeah, they're making fresh margaritas but but the margaritas are actually insane.
Speaker 1:I don't. I haven't drank like really this year at all, but like we had that one day at taco bar I had a couple margaritas, these you got it, yeah, and they're. Everything they made too, if you notice, was fresh, like they didn't have jarred salsa, like that lady was chopping up the tomatoes, chopping up three, four hours, the first night, and they were just prepping yeah, I got worried the first day they showed up so early. I was like we just ate. I'm not ready to eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like no seven seven like, oh my god, yeah, they were here all day and just the the service of yeah, just the service and, and not only the chef, the private chef, they, they're here for breakfast, they're here for dinner. The the concierge, like property manager, whatever you want to call him one is just an awesome guy. Like you never get a a rental like this that comes with just a full time person. He not only sent us a list of stuff that what we wanted to be stocked in the fridge, so we got here. The fridge is like it looks like a professional organizer organized it with just drinks, food, fruit, fresh fruit, fresh everything, bagels, whatever. Like I mean, it was a massive hall of food and all just sitting here waiting for us to get here. Like it does say, if you think about it, like we spent a shit ton of money on all of it, but it saves you so much time, so when you're down, here, especially on a short turnaround, like four days, come down here.
Speaker 3:You're doing things every second. So like having that time where we didn't have to go to the grocery store, six of us numb nuts trying to decide what we wanted for dinner, like everything's already been decided. They get here, stock the fridge. I mean, it's just that's a world-class experience.
Speaker 2:World class and the neighborhood we're in is also a gated neighborhood where you have to get access through guards and another side access with a uh with a car, which is awesome because that also makes us feel a little bit more safe oh, it's, yeah, super safe.
Speaker 1:We've been running every morning down the marina and and what the chef last night was saying this in this neighborhood and maybe adam can grab the gopro and like show, like the background, but these houses are like millions of dollars. The one that we toured with juan was like 4.5 million dollars at the top of the hill. This one that we're staying in is like 1.6 million and I think this is probably one of the cheaper houses in the neighborhood. He was saying people like, um, kevin durant has stayed here, leonardo dicaprio he was throwing out names like crazy, just like all these, oh, john travolta, trump, um, just any everybody and anybody that you could imagine like this is, this is the spot when you come to cabo. This neighborhood and these fucking castles that like are literally built on a 90 degree hill.
Speaker 2:It's like I would say that this part of cabo is like it's a very small town, so like this is probably like one of the. I think, yeah, all of cabo is a very tiny town, so like this is probably like one of the.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, all of Cabo is a very tiny little little place. I think that's what the chef was saying too last night. He was like you know, you could go like two hours away and there's like another kind of similar place like this, but this is the spot like there's no other like spot like this, like we're on the hill. The marina's right down the hill. We'll walk down there. The downtown area is just like a couple of blocks.
Speaker 2:I would say, and walking distance.
Speaker 1:We got there in like eight minutes last night yeah, and you guys went out, like we went out for a little bit last night until like 10, 30, 11, and it was totally safe, like there was even it was it was dia de los muertos yesterday, and like there was kids in the street walking around like I felt totally safe. There's art. It was like a whole. Yeah, that's their day too. That's it, that's like a big thing a lot of tequila taste testing.
Speaker 2:That was a lot of different.
Speaker 1:That was like over like a hundred different tequilas I've never seen before well, I imagine in Mexico, tequila is probably one of their big, big things that they sell. I wouldn't say healthy, let's not. Uh, if you're gonna drink it, yeah, it is. According to gary brekka, it is the healthiest of all the alcohols and stuff like that well, oh, that's the other thing we we should talk about, because we've been.
Speaker 1:We've been on this health kick. You know we're doing the iron man training right, and justin's the one that actually pointed out first when we we looked at a bag of lays potato chips, like literally looks like the lays potato chips that you get at home. It just has spanish on it, but the ingredients three ingredients. There was three ingredients.
Speaker 1:Now, like rfk is talking about, like you know how, all this stuff and he's bringing it to light. I think he's doing a good job of kind of showing how much shit they put in our food, the preservatives and makes you addicted and makes you want to keep eating it. But even like the oreos, the oreos at home you eat one oreo, you eat a fucking sleeve of oreos, these oreos here they come in a small pack and you eat two and you're like, okay, I'm satisfied, but up there, you know, you're just like everything, like when a potato chip has it was three, it was potatoes, the ingredient list was potatoes, salt and like oil or something like that, that's it, that's it and and they definitely taste a little different, but it's not bad, they're nothing's like bad happily buy these and bring them back yeah, yeah, I think that's a, that's a huge thing.
Speaker 1:And I think just the the lifestyle too, like everybody walks everywhere, I think that's a huge thing. And I think just the lifestyle too, like everybody walks everywhere, I think that's a huge thing. Like people are, I mean, even down at the marina Chase and I were down- there Running shirtless, and then they found out the next day that it's frowned upon.
Speaker 2:We were running shirtless.
Speaker 1:We found out that it was a little frowned upon to run shirtless. And what did we do today? Chase, we ran. Frown upon to run shirtless. And what did we do today? Chase, we ran, we ran, we ran shirtless again because we are americans.
Speaker 4:That was before. After, you're also getting yelled at a pickleball we were the only.
Speaker 3:We were the only people shirtless.
Speaker 1:We were the only people shirtless, that's true, but we probably look the best they've never seen physique like this down here. Dog and then, yeah, we went up to play pickleball and the girl was like hey, you have to have a shirt on. I was like I don't have one. She's like okay, it's fine. She's like it's on the sign here, it's on the side.
Speaker 2:She's like but you couldn't really see you the side of your court that you were on. It was really hard to like yeah, no, it was fine.
Speaker 1:I mean everybody like even she was super nice. It was funny, though she this is what I thought was funny about the pickleball thing. So we booked pickleball from three to five and we were, we went out and what I don't know what we were doing, we just weren't there at three. There was nobody else on these pickleball courts at all, not a single person. There's four courts and we got there and she's like, oh like, after 15 minutes the reservation cancels. So I'm just looking at an empty pickleball court I'm like yeah, four courts.
Speaker 1:There's like four courts, not a single person. She she's like I'll rebook your reservation. I'm like, do we really need a reservation? Can't we just walk down and play pickleball on the court? Can't we just do a pickup game? They do take it really serious, like all the rules here, which is good, because you know you do have a lot of fancy houses.
Speaker 2:I'm sure a lot of rich people don't want just people being yeah, you got to think of the ownership and her doing her job and if the owner came and noticed that she was slipping a little bit, they may be upset with that and potentially risk her losing.
Speaker 1:What we could do, too, is we will have our editor cut in some of the footage from this house that we toured yesterday this house. So back to some real estate content. This person bought this house for one point six million in 2020. All they did was build this terrace with glass walls, which is cool, but it the guy said it cost 100k american and it wasn't even the best view on the house, though yeah, well, it wasn't the best view, but it was a sick view it was.
Speaker 1:It's overlooking the pacific, with all this canyons and everything, and he sold it in 2023 for 4.5 million dollars so he didn't even want to sell it yeah, he was just like in a massive amount of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like how can you not sell it at that point? Right, and the other thing that he was saying when we chase and I ran up there the first time I met him is that the lady who owns this entire, all of this land her, her dad, like, is a generational thing, but she lives even higher than that house, which is tip, I think, one of the highest houses in this little community. She lives in one higher. She owns this entire place and her dad was a pilot and flew, was flying and just saw this giant rock basically it was what it is and he and's like I want that piece of land and started building these mansions on it, which is insane to think about the engineering in general, but to think just like, oh, I'm flying over and I want to buy that mountain it's like three mountains around and there's a valley and he's like I'm going to own that.
Speaker 2:And to know that it could become something at one point, because you can be on an airplane and see like different mountains and have no activity, no houses, and how would you know? But this is really close to the ocean. I'm looking at an excavator, almost looking like it's going to fall off the side of the cliff, like they're just building insane amount of houses over here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did say so. 95% of these houses are american owned. Um, I imagine that people from california this is their kind of like florida yeah right, like it's super close. Um, I did see, when I was looking up ignorantly, looking up private jets to get here, there's, it's actually not that bad to fly from san diego to here. It was like four, four grand on a private plane. So if you're like you know, four grand if you have a family, isn't really that bad. If you think about if you live in san diego and you're going to bring your family down here to fly private like eight grand round trip, that's a pretty quick flight from san diego.
Speaker 2:I would imagine, yeah, this is uh, yeah, I probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I imagine it's probably three hours. I mean, this is at like the end of the end of that peninsula, so I don't know what it is, but I mean regardless, cabo is definitely one of those places. That's like just unreal for a quick trip, even coming from the east coast. It wasn't that hard to get here a couple flights, a couple. You go to texas, you're halfway there. You go from texas to here, you're two hours away.
Speaker 2:It really wasn't that bad yeah, it was like what a total of seven and a half hours we almost got. We literally got off our first flight and had to, like, rush to the gate um, get to the second one, we landed early, like 30 minutes early, but they were just. They didn't have any space for us to to pull up. And where was that?
Speaker 1:no, in texas oh right, right in texas, yeah, yeah, that would have sucked to miss that flight because I'm sure there's not a ton of flights that are coming down here. But yeah, no, super easy. And the activities like today we're is it? Today we're going dune buggy? Yeah, today we're going dune bugging down like in the desert and stuff.
Speaker 1:And having juan has been amazing, because all I did was I've been texting him on WhatsApp for the last month or two and he's like so what do you guys want to do when you're here? He sent me a menu. He sent me a menu of all the things we wanted. It was like dune bugging, fishing, scuba diving. He just set everything up. Any reservations that we wanted, he set up for us the private chef. He sets it up, sends me a menu of what we want to eat. The private chef shows up, they do their thing, they cook. It was like you have a personal concierge the entire time you're here and he manages that five, four million dollar mansion up at the top and he's like come on up and use the pool, come up, we were going to film this podcast up there. It's just a long walk and we already have the chefs here. So we were just like I will just film it here, but just so like welcoming.
Speaker 3:You know like they're just yeah, that was such a cool experience. Dude like what what other vacation do you go on where you stay at a million dollar house and the the property manager's like, hey, come look at this four million dollar house, yeah and hang out and just come hang out.
Speaker 1:He's like you could hang out there all day go, yeah and that one.
Speaker 2:When we come here next time we'll have to rent that one. That one's 2400 a night and it fits 14 people. So, like even if you got 10 people, that's 240 a person per night. That's not bad at all to stay at the like. The house that's up at the top of the hill has two pools, looks over basically everything that we see here yeah, the, yeah, I think 2400 a night for 14 people really isn't that bad.
Speaker 1:It probably wouldn't be a comfortable 14. Like this says eight people but it's not a comfortable eight because like we do have people sleeping on couches and stuff here.
Speaker 1:I guess it would have to be like 14 people, seven couples, basically, yeah couples would work for sure, but 2,400 a night isn't really that bad when you think about it. I mean, this place was like, I think, $1,500 a night, so another thousand bucks or whatever you got and you could double your guests easily. But I think the other thing too about coming with like a group of six is that you can do all these activities with six people, like fishing was perfect, the boat was perfect for six people, dune bugging you got six.
Speaker 3:It's much easier to move around with a group of six than it is with 14 people Making decisions too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, making decisions. Luckily, I am one of the top tier vacation planners around, so I had all the decisions pretty much made before we even showed up here in Cabo.
Speaker 3:We were talking about that last night too, which is interesting. Something I didn't think about is like when you come on vacation and you plan everything back to back to back and you stay busy, you don't just sit around and drink, like people our age do, and then they go to the bar and get drunk and then you're just like you're doing the same thing you could have done in america, but in mexico yeah, I think everybody can relate like we've been to bachelor parties or vacations where the people are just going out and getting drunk, going to the clubs and then you wake up late You're wasting half your day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tyler's literally still sleeping because he went out late last night, but that to me, ruins half the vacation Today. The last couple days we were running down the marina. We were up early yesterday. We were running down the marina. We're up early. Yesterday we were up early fishing all day like we got. We're getting the maximum amount of time for activities. Oh yeah, there are some hills here. The marina is not too bad, but we ran up this canyon and we'll try to cut in some video of that. That was Justin could just it could vouch. That was a tough hill. It's like what?
Speaker 2:you think, you're, think're there, and then you turn a corner and you're like nope, looking up at the next hill.
Speaker 4:Now I just know Ryan's time management is horrendous. His five-minute run is a Justin 20-minute walk.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, to be fair, if I told you how steep and hard it was to get there, some people might have backed down of that situation and I were running up there and he's like playing my brakes chase and I were.
Speaker 1:We were running up there and I was dying I'll be honest like I'm in pretty good shape and I was fucking dying going up that hill and I was like we, we're gonna. I literally said I think we're gonna have to lie to them about this I was like I don't know that they're going to want to walk this.
Speaker 4:Like we're going to lie and we're going to get the best way to ask Juan. He was like oh yeah, there's pickleball courts and we saw the ones over there. He's like no, it's like uphill.
Speaker 3:And then I guess, when you guys figured out, now I'm like oh, it makes sense how he, his car and he was like, stopping and waiting for us and pointing and telling us the directions to the pickleball court. He didn't have to do that, he also said I'll get you when you get tired.
Speaker 1:I'm like we're not getting tired while we're getting. We're running up this hill, dude, we're running up this hill. That was pretty epic. I mean this, just the whole, the whole vibe. And I also love like we're here, like we are talking about work a little bit, you know, here and there, because this is what we do, but like it's a true like get away from all this stuff. Like my work phone has been on airplane mode. I I transferred my number back home to some, you know, to jocelyn, who's working and taking all the calls. Like I really haven't done any work besides a couple text messages. You got a couple calls. What a deal we did. We did buy a house while we were here, not a house in cabo, but we want to deal from our neighbor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, matt fullerton. Shout out to matt fullerton justin got another wholesale deal yeah, he's trying to.
Speaker 1:He's trying to move them. So we are working, never mind guys oh, there's still work yet done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, there's, there's work tyler's working the most.
Speaker 2:He works in his sleep. He sleeps eight hours. He's working those eight. He works in his sleep. He sleeps eight hours. He's working those eight hours. He's on his phone.
Speaker 1:He is, though, because he's on his phone the entire time working, which is like I get it, but he also, to be fair, I will say he was away for two weeks in Europe, and he got a lot of shit done while he was there too. So kudos to him for that, kudos to APM, he, and he got a lot of shit done while he was there too.
Speaker 2:So kudos to him for that. Kudos to APM. He was on his phone. So when he went to dinner with his family he said he was on his phone because of the time difference and the guys were just out working during those hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's one of the hardest workers I've ever met, but it is just being a business owner and people can relate to this, like when you go away and then you come back, it's the hardest thing. Before you go away it's the hard because you've got to prep and make sure all the people are ready and you might not have access to me or whatever. And then you come back and it's hard because you're playing that catch-up game.
Speaker 2:I do feel like when you do go away, it helps me think harder and what I can do better to leave my guys for the period of time that I'm going to leave for I think that's a good point.
Speaker 1:I really do think that you have to practice letting the people do their what they're going to do, and like giving them autonomy, so then you figure out where those systems are going to break. Like he was gone tyler was gone for two weeks in europe. He came back for four days and then we left for cabo and there's didn't even know where he was going.
Speaker 1:He thought he was in new hampshire tyler, to be fair, never knows where we're going on vacation until like about a week before I do tell him, like six months before when I actually book it. But I know he doesn't like keep a calendar or anything, so I have to. I have to keep his phone when out.
Speaker 2:He, literally we left the driver and he left his phone in the van and he had to come running out, and then somewhere on the boat, he left his shirt and his wallet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so usually like a week or two before I'm like, hey, just a reminder, we're going to Mexico next week, you're not going to be able to work Like On what was it? On Wednesday he texted my assistant in a group chat with me and he's like hey, carl, can you schedule a building inspection for Friday? And I didn't read it for a little while and Carl then said, yeah, sure, it's scheduled for Friday. And then I finally got to the text message and read it and I was like Tyler, you're in Mexico on Friday, you can't do a building inspection. And I was like Carl, can you cancel it and make it for next week please? And that's literally what, what we had to do. So he literally on Wednesday, did not know that he was going to Mexico on Friday. But he came and you know if we have to bring some extra things for him sometimes, like toothpaste and stuff like that, but he got his ass here and it worked out.
Speaker 1:So but yeah, that um, the whole like just planning vacations and having it in the books, I think is another thing. Like I, as soon as we get done with this one, I already start looking for the next one. And it's the same thing with, like these races and stuff like the iron man, like any of this triathlon stuff, like when you have something in the calendar it keeps you dialed in. Like if we didn't have that race in miami in two weeks, I probably would be less inclined to go on these runs today and and do what we're doing.
Speaker 2:So I think just to stay motivated right, like having something to do yeah, and just find your way of being motivated, whether it's planning that trip, like you mentioned, working out or just setting a goal and like taking baby steps to get there and hitting those steps each time to kind of give you that motivation to keep moving.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like it's a reward too, not only to like be able to like it's blessed that we're able to bring everybody here, but, like you know, you have to reward, reward yourself. Even if you don't have like money to do some crazy trip, you have to do something like. I forget it. Maybe we were listening to a podcast, nick, or we interviewed somebody that they were saying like every time they buy a house, they like do something. Like they buy a house and they celebrate it by like going to dinner or going on a weekend trip or taking their wife somewhere, like buying their wife a little gift or something like that.
Speaker 3:Just to like, because it is what we do is a grind, dude you have to have a special type of woman on your side for entrepreneurs like us, because it's I mean, we're all working, always even here it is.
Speaker 1:It is definitely a thing you need to do. You need to reward yourself and I think starting small like, even just like with a dinner or just with what a company like bringing people together. And another thing too like we all kind of work together I mean, besides Nick, even though we do work together in some ways with the podcast and subcontracting stuff but, like you know, adam's over there in the background, tyler's here, the sales guys are here Like we don't really go to an office every day and see each other. Like adam's on the road every day managing projects. You guys are selling from wherever you're selling, going to houses, walking houses. It's not like an office situation where everybody's getting that camaraderie every day.
Speaker 4:So like bringing you got to really have that self-motivation. It does make it easier, you know, working with chase and stuff, because at least it's like we get our like cold calling sessions and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, and I, like you said, ryan, like celebrating small wins, even celebrating like birthdays basically there's a lot of people who have birthdays and you just like pass it off but to have that celebration of wins and like birthday moments like you have, you should do that because it kind of just like gets you motivated. When you don't celebrate your wins, you kind of just like mellow out and you don't have anything really exciting to look forward to, because the excitement comes when you do have these celebrations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely true. And if you don't do it, you just you will eventually burn out, I think, because need I'm a trap? I like traveling, I like seeing different places. Also, selfishly, all these trips that I always book for the company are fishing related trips, because I, we go to, we go to, I love seeing people throw up, but actually didn't get sick in hawaii when we went on the fishing trip.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I don't know what it was here you did sleep a lot though.
Speaker 1:So some people do get seasick and and not sick, like throwing up, they just fall asleep, like my wife, paige. She'll come out on these trips and she like likes being on the boat and stuff, but as soon as we get offshore she just falls asleep and it's not like she's sick or anything, she just falls asleep. But the way I look at it, I'm a fisherman. I like going on fishing trips and most people enjoy and it's like a once a lifetime experience for some people to like go out there and do that shit so selfishly. We, we do these fishing trips. That's. That's what's uh.
Speaker 1:Next year I think I'm looking at panama maybe come back here. I mean, honestly, we there's probably stuff here that we missed. We didn't get to the beach, we didn't do a couple of things that I would have liked to do, but the four-day trip is nice and and it's easy to plan. Um highly suggest. I'll try to put the. I'll try to get Ezekiel to put the link of this place in there for anybody that wants to come here, because I haven't had a Airbnb or whatever you call it VRBO experience like this one no, I think I was asking you the other day like how did you plan this, like how did you come up with this?
Speaker 3:And you're like, oh, I just booked on VRBO. I was like no way you booked accommodations like this just on VRBO, that's pretty cool, so, yeah.
Speaker 1:So what happened was I booked it on VRBO and then I started messaging the host, who is not Juan. The host was like the actual owner, who's an American guy guy, and then he just texted me Juan's like whatsapp number and he was like, hey, uh, text him with whatever you need, introduce yourself. So I just introduced myself and then he literally sent me like a pdf of just anything we wanted, like if you wanted to go horseback riding, if you wanted the private chef, if you wanted this, whatever. So I just went through and I looked at the calendar and I just booked everything out the private chef for dinner, for breakfast.
Speaker 1:We're going out to a really, uh, insane dinner tonight. You guys are going to be in for a huge treat. It's going to be the most romantic thing we've ever done with all of our boys. Is that like a sunset? Right, it's a, it's called sunset mona lisa. It's literally a restaurant built on a cliff with glass walls so you don't fall off, but like it overlooks the cabo arch where everybody takes their like pictures and stuff. Um, we're probably going to be the only group of like guys going there together tonight. Everybody else will either be getting engaged, they're gonna yeah, they're gonna wonder why we're there, but it's a.
Speaker 1:It's a seven course chef select meal, so you don't even pick. You don't pick what you're going to eat, you just are going to like it, no matter what. And they're, course after course it's. Every course is paired with a different wine. It's going to be, it's going to be, epic. I did it with page and I was like this is not a place that you should probably go with all your homies. But I'm going to bring them homies, but I'm going to bring them. I'm going to bring them all here, because this is just too good to be true.
Speaker 2:So let me ask all of you guys something Do you guys think there will be a time in your life where you will hire a private chef?
Speaker 4:Yes, 100%. I'd already looked into it prior to this dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were talking, Justin 100% confirmed. Yeah, you said about 60 grand.
Speaker 3:I haven't looked into it, but I know you mentioned about 60 grand for them. Well, we didn't.
Speaker 1:We talk about this a while back me and you, yeah, but there, so there are options with that too, because we had a private chef come over for my birthday and it that was unbelievable, like he was really, really good.
Speaker 3:The fruit was great. Like, yeah, he was buying fruit from like this Chinese supermarket and the fruit was crazy.
Speaker 1:Like he was buying fruit from like this Chinese supermarket and the fruit was amazing, just like things that you don't even think about, like the way that he loves food and like uses science to like make it Like one of the ingredients that he used in this, like braised, like short rib thing or whatever was like milk chocolate and like you couldn't taste it, but you knew like there was something different about this meal. And even like eric dude, like this chef. Here he was.
Speaker 1:he truly loves the craft and everything being so fresh, and he really explained everything like afterwards yeah, and honestly like I don't want to sound ignorant like 60k is not a lot of money to spend, but if you think about getting a chef for 60 grand and every single meal that you eat is clean, healthy portion, controlled with fresh ingredients, it's really not that much money.
Speaker 2:Okay, so if a chef is 60 grand a year, what would you think someone would have to make per year to justify having a chef for 60,000 a year?
Speaker 3:Depends on their expense. That's a loaded question. I think it depends on.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Well, not Give me a price range, because you can't make 100 grand a year and do it. You can't make 200 grand a year and do it.
Speaker 4:So what would you guys say?
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't like talking on air about, like, how much I make.
Speaker 2:Well, no, how much would somebody have to make?
Speaker 1:in your opinion, I would say about 500 grand 500, yeah, but even at 500, dude, like I don't even say it, but like we make that and I'm not going to hire a private chef, you know, like that's, I think that that's. That's like a what is that? A one, almost a fifth, because you gotta remember the 60k is the labor. You still gotta buy the food. So you're spending 100k a year.
Speaker 2:I think you probably it's close to a mil, but you're also you're buying food anyway, like whether you're shopping and making it that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. I mean, I don't know, maybe a mil, maybe a mil a year, comfortably. That's like clear, without. And there's also a difference between like somebody that's making a million a year, like for our company, and versus like what you are actually not reinvesting and putting into your own pocket. Right, because, like our company makes a lot of money seven figures but we're not seeing that because we reinvest it so, like, maybe later in life when that money's sitting there and it's really not getting constantly churned and burned like all the money you make.
Speaker 1:You buy more houses with right, like if you took less 60K every year instead of buying that many houses you did to a private chef, it would, that would hurt a little bit. But there's also other options, dude. There's these chefs that'll come in and just cook your meal prep for you, and that's actually something that I have been thinking about recently, now that I'm into really getting dialed in with my health. They count those macros out for you. Yeah, yeah, they count your macros for you and then you go and they either come to your house or you go pick it up and you have your meals for the week.
Speaker 1:I think that that service is something, that it was a bug on me here. Um, that service is something that most people can probably afford if they wanted to, and and not have to go eat the shit food that we're fed in all these restaurants. And you know, even restaurants do like they're using foods with like preservatives and stuff with the. With the chef that you hire, you can literally basically just like use organic uh, all the organic stuff. There he is.
Speaker 2:Goodness, tyler's up, that's our buddy.
Speaker 1:Tyler. Yep, what an epic, what an entry, what an epic entry. Mid-podcast Cracks a beer, cracks a cerveza, tyler come here 9.20. Get him in that wide angle, make sure he's in the wide angle. Oh man, that's epic. And then he drops the mic and leaves. I hope one of these cameras got that. Um, that was that was funny. I guess he, uh, is up from his up from his slumber, he doesn't.
Speaker 1:No, no, you're saying feeling. He doesn't ever not feel good. That's the problem. That's literally the like. He is one of the craziest specimens that I've ever been had the pleasure of being with for the last eight years. That can go out until fucking four in the morning and get completely blacked out and then wake up at seven and be at work. Yeah and. But the problem with that is he'll do that like with people that we work with or work for us. It can't bounce back like that and then he gets mad at I know when we were out last night.
Speaker 2:He's so good at that. I'm like I'm tired, I want to go back. He's like where do you got to be? Could I, could I do um? Can I get one more?
Speaker 1:I'll try one. Yeah, yes, please Three. You want one?
Speaker 3:Thank you, Eric, Thanks Eric.
Speaker 1:I don't usually drink coffee, but I think I got to do that.
Speaker 3:Dude, this is amazing.
Speaker 2:I know, chase, you needed some yesterday, and so did I.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the fish kind of got to me. We had a lot of fish day one coming here.
Speaker 2:We had the fish tacos at the restaurant and then we had.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know how you can come here and not eat fish. There's literally just fish everywhere, like we were running on the marina the first day and there's just like people are carting in marlin tuna Like it's. I mean it is.
Speaker 2:Before we came here I didn't know that it was like a fishing town.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah, it's a fishing town, it's literally the fishing town.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean the restaurant we went to. It's literally like you catch your own fish, they'll cook it for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, which is cool. But yeah, the the back to the private chef thing, because I'm really intrigued with this. I also just thought of, like, what if you had a couple of us? We live within 15 minutes of each other I'm sure you can split one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, have them come and just do it all at once.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, like if I, if my family eats dinner at seven and you eat dinner at six, we could you know what I'm saying? They could be prepping, and I mean he's got a little helper there.
Speaker 2:I'm, I'm sold on that um, I wonder how much eric would charge, or if he would even consider moving to like a full-time position, how much to get you on a plane? Yeah, but like, even just like to ask him like, if you were to come to united states and work full-time for one person, how much would you charge? Just out of curiosity, you of curiosity, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I don't think he can answer that because he doesn't know how much it costs to live in the United States.
Speaker 2:Well, if we provided housing for him. Maybe that might change a little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we could sell him a house.
Speaker 2:So I guess, in your opinion, hiring a private chef, it would obviously get your time back and I guess it would get your help. It'll make you eat more healthy food. But what's the more important thing the time back or having somebody like Focus on the most healthy foods that you can eat? Well it's definitely, yeah, that's the definitely two benefits of it. Like what's the more more important to you guys? Would it be the time back that you're getting or the the health of the food that you're going to be cooking?
Speaker 4:I'll be honest, I'm a takeout king dog. If my wife wants something, I'll order it like oh, you want to stay from this restaurant?
Speaker 3:I do spend a good amount of time cooking at home, especially got a vent mail time yeah, I would say time, the grocery shopping is huge, like my wife goes to three different groceries. She goes all these sami Sam's Club, Walmart, and depending on what she's getting she goes to different. So like having her not have to do that and what would she do?
Speaker 3:with that time back that she would be getting, she could do anything she wanted, like that's all she does right now and so like it takes up a bunch of her time. I come home, she's cooking us three different meals at the same time because she's meal prepping us for the week, and so she's cooking me breakfast I mean lunch and dinner and herself lunch and dinner. So she's making four different meals typically and it I mean it takes two days to do all of that right.
Speaker 2:Who goes shopping? Do? Is it you that goes shopping? Or page, or a combination?
Speaker 1:so I, oh, I order my groceries for delivery. Um, I, I started doing that, man, and it does cost a little bit more, but I'm like time, time, time time.
Speaker 4:Thank you, eric this is actually chef Eric. Yeah, here he is.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. If you think about like, how much time I save by ordering groceries and then not having to drive, sit in traffic, whatever they just get delivered to the house, I'm telling you I probably save like two to three hours a week and you know it doesn't sound like a lot. But when you're working and like when you're doing what we're doing, you're putting a strain on your relationships, no matter what, right, with friends, your wife, with whoever, family, and every minute really does count. So for me to spend, I think the Instacart membership is like $100 a year and then it's like a $6 or $7 surcharge. Then you tip the person. So you figure you're probably spending an extra $15 a grocery haul, right, so you go and get, and you could get from Costco, you can get. So if you spend $200.
Speaker 4:It's just that delegating we do in our business anyways right. Yeah, it's the same, the same. Thousands of phone calls to unqualified leads right yeah, yeah, we hire the cold callers.
Speaker 3:Well, the other thing is like thinking about like I don't, I don't like to eat the same meal every week back to back, I can't do it. So, like being able to push that to somebody else, to a chef or whatever that would be, that would take so much mental strain off of me, because my christian's always coming to me like, hey, what do you want this week? And I'm like I don't know, like can we like you? I mean, we're using chat, gpt to figure out my meals.
Speaker 4:I'm using tiktok like what do you want for lunch this week?
Speaker 1:yeah, right, right and and they and you know what, when you're, when you're a trained chef, you think differently about food. So you, you're the combinations of food like we can get the same thing. This is what I noticed, like last night, when we were like, hey, what are you going to make for breakfast? Like, look in the fridge what we have like. And he's like, oh, I'm going to use this for this and you don't. We don't think that way.
Speaker 1:We're like, oh, it's turkey, we got to make a turkey sandwich. He's like, oh, I'm gonna chop it up, I'm gonna do this. And like, you know, if you, if you, if you're classically trained, like that it's, you know. It's like putting somebody in front of a piano that's never played a piano versus somebody that's been playing the piano for fucking 20 years, they're gonna be able to put different sounds out than than you are so we're gonna be renting doom buggies later and ryan is just trying to get into race car, so hopefully he doesn't take it too hard on the doom buggies today and flip or anything but so I did.
Speaker 1:I did recently learn how to drive race cars thanks to my brother-in-law, who brought me. I joined this bmw club with him, because you have to join this club to be a part of the track, and I went to the track. I don't know if we've talked about this on the podcast, but it is invigorating. So, like you think you can drive fast and it's cool. You're sitting on the highway and you take off, or you're sitting at red light, you take off, and that's one thing, but these, this shit is crazy. You're in a, you're on a two mile track, so two miles, there's 19 turns and you're driving at like insane speeds that you've never driven at before, and then you're slamming on the brakes, making 90 degree turns, and then I thought I was doing good, like I thought I was good at it. The um, yeah, you think you're like good at this thing and um, I'm holding out until nick lowers his terms on hollaburton all right, let's talk about it, come on yeah, you want to talk about the deal.
Speaker 1:Why don't you put a shirt on, so you?
Speaker 1:don't put a shirt on so you don't scare anybody. Um, but yeah, the. I went and drove with the instructor after I got done driving and I thought I was like king shit driving this car and you're like ripping around the turns at 80 miles an hour and you get with them and they're like twice as fast as you and you're like I'm like, literally at this point in the you're strapped in, you have a helmet and you're the helmet strapped to the seat so you can't like move your head or anything. And I'm sitting there like just holding on to like whatever I can, and they're doing a hundred mile an hour, 90 degree turns, just spinning. And it was the. It was like a rollercoaster ride, the most invigorating rollercoaster ride ever. And of course, I'm like not even a car guy. I, the second. I come home from this fucking weekend. I am searching up BMWs, I'm looking at Porsches. I'm like, oh my God, another expensive fucking hobby. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm sure Paige is loving that.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, you know what sucks. This is another thing that sucks. All of the fun hobbies are so expensive, Like we fish. Okay, I had to buy a boat. You can go golfing Every time. You have a $2,000 set of golf clubs. You have to still pay $120 to go play.
Speaker 3:Or you're losing 20 balls.
Speaker 1:You lost, like what? Four? Oh yeah, golf tournament. The other day I lost four or five proby ones. I was like, oh, there's another 25 off the like, just yeah, it's just expensive. So if anything's motivating, find some fun hobbies to do and you will, uh, forever be motivated to keep making money because you can't afford to do. Yeah, like just the race car thing too. Like every we did one day of racing with the one car. So I raced one car all day. I had four different track sessions, four track sessions of 30 minutes. We had to change the break, the brakes completely. They were brand new. The day the second I started, the day that first day that I finished. It was a two-day event. We changed the brakes and the tires, so all four tires and the brakes had to be completely changed, brand new at whose expense is that?
Speaker 2:is that included in the fee that you paid to?
Speaker 1:so I yeah, because I rented. So I rented the car. It was 1500 bucks for the weekend and they supplied the brakes and the stuff the car was there with you.
Speaker 2:Is that who?
Speaker 1:it was yeah, so it's like a company. It's called let's Go Racing. He's out of Virginia and he owns several souped-up race cars. He's got this crazy Toyota Supra with 650 horsepower. Did you choose the car that you were going to be in? Yeah, I got to choose. They had BMWs. It was a BMWw club so there's a lot of bmw m2s, m3s, m4s. Um, I chose the camaro because I wanted to drive stick and the other ones had, like, the paddle shifters in them and I was more interested in I like. Like I used to have a manual car, so I like driving manual. And the the camaro was this like souped up ss. It had like I think 550 horsepower and a bunch of torque and it was that. That was like cool. So that's the car that I picked. But yeah, I could have picked any other car. The supra was like 3500 for the weekend. Like there was different tiers. Obviously, yeah, you have to get track insurance, it's called okay, so that helps cover, if there's so I learned about that.
Speaker 1:So like, basically, like, my father-in-law has a BMW M2 that he races pretty consistently but he also drives it on the road like a regular car. Some of the cars they're not even legal to drive my brother-in-law's car. He had the trailer there and it's literally an older BMW that's stripped completely. It's got no. Instead of the radio and tape deck or whatever you want to call it, it has a screen there that's just for time. So it has, like how fast you're. It's a g, it's actually a garmin, and it's like it tells you how fast your times are for each lap and it tells you your delta, whether you did a faster lap or a slower lap than the last one. It's like a game. It's like a video game. But I learned that track insurance. So they had these crazy cars. They're like all sorts of cars, but track insurance only covers you up to 250 000, so you can't have a car unless you're like super baller and don't give a shit, because we watched cars crash like there was a car that literally went right off the track and crashed into the wall and they said it was going to be like it's definitely going to be totaled like that. Track insurance covers it. But you can buy track insurance per day or you can buy it for like the whole year, but I imagine it's expensive. But that came with uh, that came with that thing.
Speaker 1:I think I paid a total of like 2500 bucks including the car, the bmw club entry, which is good for like a year, and gas. So that was the other thing. Use a half. It is two mile track for 30 minutes. So you're driving for 30 minutes full tank of gas, basically a full tank of gas, because you can't go out there with less than like a certain amount because they don't want you like breaking down or whatever. So I think I was using like three-quarters of a tank and you can't go out there with less than a half a tank, so it's like they don't allow you to. So I, every single session, every 30 seconds, 30 minute session, you had to fill up three quarters of the tank of gas.
Speaker 3:So definitely not an expensive hobby yeah, it's an expensive hobby.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm holding off. I've been looking and you know what, if you, if you don't want to do something like I really don't want to buy this car don't join the clubs on facebook, because I'm joining all these these different groups on facebook and now all I see is porsches, bmws for sale and it's it's really hard to stay um, stay away, but I'm seeing them. I'm like, oh man, that would be nice, and adam and I are looking at. I'm like, oh man, that would be nice, and adam and I are looking at. I'm like, oh, what about this one? And what about this one?
Speaker 3:like shit I'm gonna fucking buy a car next thing.
Speaker 1:You know you need a trailer to tow the car oh, no, no, yeah, yeah, that that's how the that's how the boat happened, that's how the boat that's how your truck captain I promised myself that I wasn't gonna buy a boat.
Speaker 1:So many of the listeners probably know I started. I was a boat captain. I was working on boats. I was driving people's boats. It was great because I didn't have to pay for anything. I was getting paid to bring people out on their boats and they were like big, you know, fishing boats and whatever private boats. I would teach people how to drive their own boats. And then we to florida and I rented a boat in st pete. You were there, right, I think you were there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we rented a boat and it was a 22 foot center console and I we were in this like crazy chop. And you know my boat, it like it, it does so well in this shop. And it started just throwing this water and it reminded me of a 50 foot like custom Carolina boat. That's like millions of dollars the way that it just cuts through the water. I came back home and I was like Paige, I think I'm going to buy a boat. And she's like, ok, because she knows I love it's like a passion of mine.
Speaker 1:I stopped because the business got too busy. I really stopped working on boats and I was not really getting out as much as I would have liked to get out on to fish. We have boats that, like her family has boats that we get to use like wake surfing boats and cruisers and stuff like that. But I wanted a fishing boat. I saw this boat was like the most amazing 22 foot boat that I ever saw, just because I rented it. I came back I was like I'm buying a boat. She said, okay, great, I found a boat in Pompano Beach, like just north of Fort Lauderdale, and I said I'm going to go buy this boat. And then I realized that my truck that I had at the time didn't have the capacity to tow the boat. So I said I don't know if I even told her about the truck until after I did it. But then I went and I bought a truck, a real expensive not just a truck, a real expensive truck.
Speaker 1:And then I came back and I said, hey well, what happened was I didn't get bring it home that day because I had to order it and like they didn't have that truck. And I came back and I was like, paige, I may have bought a truck, you may have bought a truck. No, I bought a truck because I had to, because I couldn't go tow the boat back from Florida without the truck. But now in hindsight it was genius. Chase and I were talking about this yesterday. If I had bought the truck first, there was no way she would have let me bought the boat.
Speaker 3:So I really pulled some. Should have been like yo, you just bought a $90,000 truck, you're not buying a boat too. That would have been crazy. So that was smart thinking. So buy the car first and then the trailer will come. But you have people.
Speaker 2:No, buy the trailer first and then say I got to fill it with something.
Speaker 1:I'll buy a car trailer without a car, and then I'll be like Paige, why I can't have a car trailer without a race car to trailer it, and then I have to buy the race car. That's it. No, I really I'm trying to be strong about buying things, that's. I think that's one of the hardest things when you when, like the lifestyle inflation we always talk about, like don't do it, don't do it, your lifestyle creeps and for for we've been running this podcast for three years now, right, and we're in the beginning. We're like you know, you got to stay focused and and building, and building, and building. But eventually it gets to a point where, if you don't spend it, you have to enjoy it. You have to enjoy it. You have to enjoy it. You have to be able to do things. You have to be able to bring your friends and people that work with you and like none of our business, like I was telling Justin last night he was like, thanking me for bringing it.
Speaker 1:I was like none of this would even be possible without the people that are here. Like I can't do all this shit myself, tyler can't, even though he thinks he can. He can't do all this without everybody. Like it's a truly it's a village. It takes a team team and if the team's not motivated, it's like sports too. If you have a shitty coach and like a shitty group of people that are all like, you know, you think about the like, the all-star teams, right, like, those teams probably wouldn't be the best teams because there's one person that thinks they're like I think nick saban and the Bama run, you know what I mean, yeah, he was a great coach.
Speaker 1:Yep, so eventually you got to spend it Not all of it, though Not all of it and you got to be very careful of that point that you get.
Speaker 2:You have to understand that point that you're going to be at before you start spending. You don't want to do it too soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to be fair, we could talk about nick again like we talked about this on the podcast. A bunch. Nick was living in a small ass condo. Actually first nick didn't own any house like that he lived in. You owned 20 houses first, so what was?
Speaker 2:it was seven houses before I moved out of my parents okay, so, yeah.
Speaker 1:So nick owned seven rental properties, which is some people's lifelong goal before he moved out of his parents' house. So that's like, just in itself, self-control, because you have you. I mean you don't want to be living at home, but you're building this thing, so you have to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, We'll wrap it up for the chef in a couple of minutes. But the um, the fact that you did that and held off, and then you moved into a very conservative little condo for a little while and lived there for how many years four and a half years, lived there for four and a half years. You had a kid, you know you had to make sure you're, you know, providing for them and you.
Speaker 2:You lived there for a while and now you bought a big million dollar house on the water yeah, and it wasn't even planned like I would have been fine living in the condo for a few more years, but that house popped up on the auction website and I had to toward it the day before it went up for auction.
Speaker 1:I'm like man, I gotta get this house yeah so, and then that was like your reward. And now what I what I also find too and I I can close with this and everybody can kind of weigh in is like, when you do make that like Chase just bought a Tesla when you do make that big purchase when I bought that truck and I knew that I had to, like I have to justify buying this truck I was working my ass off. I was like grinding. I was like, OK, I bought a truck and a boat and I got all this other shit I got to pay for and make sure that all my people are still paid like that in itself is motivating.
Speaker 3:I, I think, yeah, you got to be careful too. Like being around people like you and Nick and Tyler like the comparison comparison is the thief of joy. Like me, like just getting to where I'm at, um, it's. It's hard to have that self-control, but you really got to make sure you're dialing back and making smart, educated decisions, and you do have to enjoy life a little bit, but there's a point where you have to be responsible as well. And so like the Tesla purchase was basically just an equity swap from my other car, and so like I didn't really do anything crazy besides bump my monthly insurance up a couple bucks, yeah, and it's gonna save me gas. And it was more of like a all right, we're looking at a ton of homes. I'd rather drive something that's more economically sound and there's a certain like.
Speaker 1:When you're in our business unfortunately, this is a true thing there is a image that you should be. You know, if you, if you pull up to a million dollar listing that you're trying to lock in and you're in a beat up old car, that person that looks at you is like when you compare yourself to other people, because we're, we're, we're doing fine, but we're not. There's levels, man, like there is so many levels and if you look up and you're comparing yourself to that next level, it'll. It'll murder you. You'll just be, you'll be demotivated because you're like, well, why don't I have that? And like, I said this to you a million times like, dude, I've been doing this shit for 10 years. You came in, you just, you literally just quit your job and did this, started doing this full time five months ago. So, like, you can't compare yourself to anybody else. You just have to like, stay on track, grind and and make shit happen yeah, I mean, justin's been killing it in sales.
Speaker 3:He's was a car salesman for years and you know, I just got out of the air force in april and like I compare myself to him sometimes, like why am I not that type of savage that just you know is on the phone being being ruthless?
Speaker 1:yeah justin has been a blessing to us because he's has so many skills with sales. Not only are you a savage, but like just knowing how to talk to people from like being in car sales, which is probably one of the toughest industries to sell stuff in, and coming in and like I mean the first month that he was with us probably made 50, 40, 50 000 in profit margins like what are you?
Speaker 3:you're on your second transaction sold right um, after only getting your real estate license a couple months ago.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he had a license for like three, four months. Had a buy side, had a listing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first month he gets his license has a listing, has a buy side wholesaled a couple properties. We're waiting on a wholesale fee of 15 grand. That was like from the first week you were working with us.
Speaker 4:It was a deal we couldn't like, like that was a dog of a deal. Yeah, we can't get this done.
Speaker 1:I was like give it to me.
Speaker 4:I got it. Yeah, that, that is true.
Speaker 1:All right, well, we're gonna wrap it up. We'll be, uh, we'll be back with some more content. I'm gonna post some stuff from the other activities and stuff, but we'll, uh, we'll, wrap this thing up here and till next time, guys back in america.
